Michael Flynn's Blog, page 27
January 15, 2013
A Long Time Ago...
...there was a bunch of kids who formed a club, called
The Adventure Club!
There were seven of them, and they had their own proud flag. The club was formed for the purpose of having adventures, the which Persistent Reader has already no doubt winkled out on his own.
The flag of the Adventure Club. Seven stripes for seven members.
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The flag of the Adventure Club. Seven stripes for seven members.
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January 14, 2013
Novel Excerpt
A new excerpt had been posted on The Other Page, namely, the introduction of Carole Harris in the WIP, THE SHIPWRECKS OF TIME, from Chapter 2: "The Short Farewell of Sister Mary Barbara."
January 13, 2013
The Spiral Arm
It doesn't look that far from here.....
Granted, this is as the crow flies and the distances are different when using the roads. Some stars are closer by road than shown. Other stars close together on the Newtonian flats are unreachable by the road network.
Where the words "Orion Spur" appear is the Rift. The CCW occupies the space between "Sun" and "Orion Spur" while the ULP occupies the region of the Perseus Arm just under the word "Orion." The La Frontera region is the other side of the Perseus Arm, facing the Outer Arm, shading off into the Wild just above the word "Arm". The Outer Arm of course constitutes the Rim.
Granted, this is as the crow flies and the distances are different when using the roads. Some stars are closer by road than shown. Other stars close together on the Newtonian flats are unreachable by the road network.
Where the words "Orion Spur" appear is the Rift. The CCW occupies the space between "Sun" and "Orion Spur" while the ULP occupies the region of the Perseus Arm just under the word "Orion." The La Frontera region is the other side of the Perseus Arm, facing the Outer Arm, shading off into the Wild just above the word "Arm". The Outer Arm of course constitutes the Rim.
January 12, 2013
January 10, 2013
Science Marches On!
The wonders of Electricity! What did folks foresee in 1919? Radio direction finders! Dental x-Rays! Electric light baths! Electric washing machines -- with a motor-driven wringer! Electric stove! Electric cooking utensils! Vacuum cleaners! Even, if you can believe it, a dish-washing machine!
No wonder the great age of Science Fiction was about to dawn! This was the Future, man, an electric thrill in store for everyone! Hoo-ah!
I especially like the demure young Lady Electricity, emblematic of a less provocative age of clothing.
from the 1919 New York Electrical Show illustrated in the December 1919 issue of Electrical Experimenter magazin h/t Paleofuture</a>
No wonder the great age of Science Fiction was about to dawn! This was the Future, man, an electric thrill in store for everyone! Hoo-ah!
I especially like the demure young Lady Electricity, emblematic of a less provocative age of clothing.
from the 1919 New York Electrical Show illustrated in the December 1919 issue of Electrical Experimenter magazin h/t Paleofuture</a>
January 6, 2013
Sometimes the Mask Slips, Just a Little
Let's give up on the Constitution.
Somehow, one doubts that Mr. Seidman would have said such a thing during the tenure of G.W.Bush or R.Reagan. But there are some rulers who can do no wrong. (And "rulers" they would be.)
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Somehow, one doubts that Mr. Seidman would have said such a thing during the tenure of G.W.Bush or R.Reagan. But there are some rulers who can do no wrong. (And "rulers" they would be.)
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January 4, 2013
Shipwrecks of Time excerpt
There is a new excerpt over on the Other Page. But this may be the last one, since there seems very little interest.
January 3, 2013
Evolution Marches On
In Washington State, a tree has evolved the ability to attack and ingest bicycles.
December 30, 2012
Post-Modern Evolution
From time to time TOF has touched upon the peculiarities of the varioustheories of evolution: Lamarck, Blythe, Darwin/Wallace, Mendel, Kimura, Shapiro, et al. Prior posts include:
De evolutione evolutionisHappy Birthday, dear Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck, Happy Birthday to you!The End of Darwinism EvolutionAnd some of the topics that have bubbled up include
the persistence of teleology in evolutionary thought (apparently tworked off Fodor, who dissed natural selection precisely because it was inescapably teleological)the importance of the environment, including the organism's own behavior at shaping evolutionthat genetics and molecular biology may be more important than natural selection
James Shapiro
Some of these thoughts were initially triggered years ago by an essay for the educated lay public by James Shapiro that deconstructed both Michael Behe (the ID-guy) and Richard Dawkins (the science popularizer). Both, he said, were dealing with obsolete metaphors of genetics. This resulted in a correspondent immediately denouncing Shapiro as a shill for the Discovery Institute. He wasn't and isn't, but it is interesting to note that the first reaction of the Third Way-denialists was to make up something scurrilous about the guy. Similar thing happened to Eldrege and Gould when they introduced punctuated equilibrium. Students of the history of heresies will recognize the behavior instantly.
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De evolutione evolutionisHappy Birthday, dear Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck, Happy Birthday to you!The End of Darwinism EvolutionAnd some of the topics that have bubbled up include
the persistence of teleology in evolutionary thought (apparently tworked off Fodor, who dissed natural selection precisely because it was inescapably teleological)the importance of the environment, including the organism's own behavior at shaping evolutionthat genetics and molecular biology may be more important than natural selection
James Shapiro
Some of these thoughts were initially triggered years ago by an essay for the educated lay public by James Shapiro that deconstructed both Michael Behe (the ID-guy) and Richard Dawkins (the science popularizer). Both, he said, were dealing with obsolete metaphors of genetics. This resulted in a correspondent immediately denouncing Shapiro as a shill for the Discovery Institute. He wasn't and isn't, but it is interesting to note that the first reaction of the Third Way-denialists was to make up something scurrilous about the guy. Similar thing happened to Eldrege and Gould when they introduced punctuated equilibrium. Students of the history of heresies will recognize the behavior instantly.
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